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CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), Islandia, N.Y., has announced that leading analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. has named CA a leader in both IT and business-driven project portfolio management (PPM). In its December 2009 report "The Forrester Wave(TM): Project Portfolio Management, Q4 2009,"* Forrester evaluated 14 PPM vendors on 89 points of criteria, positioning CA as a leader for its "versatile offerings combined with strong product and corporate focus."
For the first time, Forrester evaluated PPM solutions for use outside the IT organization, for example in new product development and corporate portfolio management, acknowledging the growing use of PPM anywhere organizations are managing people, projects and portfolios. CA's success in providing PPM solutions for IT and the business was recognized by Forrester, naming CA a leader in both PPM for IT-driven portfolios and PPM for business-driven portfolios.
"CA provides a strong all-around offering coupled with strong organizational commitment," wrote Margo Visitacion, vice president at Forrester and the report's author. "CA continues to provide the pragmatic features that...